Coveney blunders in on the British-Irish Conference

Tánaiste overstated role it gives Dublin in affairs of the North, with predictable consequences

Newton Emerson

Tánaiste Simon Coveney: Everything in his Dáil statement during leader’s questions was a perfectly reasonable and scrupulously correct, apart from the reference to a budget, which was an extraordinary mistake. Photograph: Cyril Byrne

Tánaiste Simon Coveney: Everything in his Dáil statement during leader’s questions was a perfectly reasonable and scrupulously correct, apart from the reference to a budget, which was an extraordinary mistake. Photograph: Cyril Byrne

For the love of God, will somebody draw Fine Gael a diagram?

The British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference, an institution of the Belfast Agreement, can deal only with non-devolved matters.

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